M0013585: Two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads / M0013586: Newly born child, mother and midwife

Date:: July 1954

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/121/87

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0013496-M0013599WT/D/1/20/1/121
        M0013585: Two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads / M0013586: Newly born child, mother and midwifeWT/D/1/20/1/121/87

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M0013585: Two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads / M0013586: Newly born child, mother and midwife. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Babies with tightly bandaged heads.

Description

Left-hand side: Reproduction of a photograph of two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads to create an elongated skull, New Guinea. This reproduction was made from an unidentified photograph held by Wellcome Collection. Right-hand side: Reproduction of a photograph by Spink & Sons of a marble relief sculpture depicting a woman and child with midwife. This reproduction was made from another photograph of this image accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (PHO 4450).

Publication/Creation

July 1954

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for other photographic copies:PHO 4450.

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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